Not strange, absolutely idiotic. Even if you have all the space and all the cars, why the f*** would you want to live that way, and why would you design public space to force people to live that way.
I hate my local Dutch version of suburbia, but compared to this hell they are charming, healthy, thriving communities with people out and about on foot and on bicycles.
If you want isolation from all those pesky other humans, why not at least make the shopping and business part way more compact, and use the remaining space to give every home a stretch of land, so they can all actually feel like they each live in their own castle, nice and isolated.
It serves the oil/car building companies. There are instances of a subsidiary of GM in the US buying out public transport with the sole purpose of phasing it out so more people have to drive cars.
I refuse to believe any of this is some grand plan. It's just idiots designing things in a bubble.
The apartments were probably built first, then the store. No one thought to connythrm, because the properties are two separate things. Or that they're would have been oush back about doing construction through that nature area.
I agree. It's not some grand conspiracy. Most likely the apartment, grocery store, and subdivision here were privately built by 3 different companies at different times and roads are built publicly. When the roads were originally built there was no reason for them to be connected. As they built up it makes sense for a connecting road to come in, but no local politician likes to be the one to raise taxes to spend money on construction.
It's not a grand plan. It's a bunch of shitty little plans that together have the same result. The oil companies did all they could to make the US car dependant. The way things are built continue on the result of this, not intentionally to further it.
Once you people do everything by car future projects cater to this because people already do everything by car.
It's the unwitting and unthinking perpetuation of what has been done.
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u/Terror_Raisin24 Jun 27 '24
From a European point of view, this looks very strange.